Description

SHOBROOKE SHOBROOKE PARK
SS 80 SE
2/86 Park seat, wall and gates
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GV II
Grand, ornamental canopied seat. Front is enclosed by walls and gates. Circa 1850
by T L Donaldson for John Henry Hippisley. Stucco on brick with Portland stone
dressings, cast iron gates. Neo-Classical style. Large, semi-circular seat with
apsidal canopy. Overlooks landscaped valley to west. Flanking columns with
projecting blocks of rusticated, moulded caps and ball finials on stools. Moulded
front arm surmounted by carved shell with scrolls. Palmette acroterion. Simple,
moulded cornice around back but wooden seat no longer survives. 3 semi-circular
steps to front. Seat enclosed by wall with moulded coping on verniculated plinth
rising each side and projecting outwards with 2 posts each side, each with setting
for ball finials (lying nearby). Gate piers with simple pedimented caps. Iron
gates with scroll and palm decoration, honeysuckle cresting and twisted finials.
Seat serves as an eye-catcher from the Sundial Terrace (qv).

Listing NGR: SS8590201445

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26400873

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)